Romney and the Los Angeles Times editorial board are out to lynch Trump.
In the face of the hundreds of thousands of people who have voted for Trump, a dozen people on the LA Times editorial board and Romney say their opinion trumps the opinion of the voters. And they call Trump arrogant? Of course they all have good jobs and their opinion can not be outsourced, but their opinion, masquerading as objective because it is on the editorial page, is hardly unbiased regardless of what page of the newspaper it is on.
What does Trump represent? In my view from my small office in Kansas, Trump represents my last effort to register my absolute dissatisfaction for the professional politicians that run my life down and not up. It is a last hurrah for genuine change, disruptive as it might be. We recognize that disruptive innovation has made our lives easier, e.g. The Internet, the iPhone, the computer. We need the same disruptive innovation in our government. And if you do not see this need, then you need to read more history as President Truman often said.
Romney will insist today that Trump will create a trade war. Where has Romney been? We have been in a trade war for 30 years and we are losing, if we have not already lost. For example, the Taiwanese government put my company and many others out of business in California with unfair trade. Taiwanese companies were paid by their government to export computer circuit boards to America and undercut American made products. Meanwhile, politicians go into office poor and come out rich. Go figure.
Romney has not been a part of the trade war because he has been investing in companies that grow based on our trade loss. Apart from the fact that Romney is wealthy and came from a wealthy family, he has no special attribute that makes his view superior to the view of thousands of voters who have already expressed their support of Trump. Romney's rejection of this fact makes his opinion meaningless and brands him the same bully that he wishes to brand Trump with.
The newspaper's editor boards and Romney are examples of how a few people can use their media and positional power to persuade voters that their opinion is superior to ours. To paraphrase, Steve Jobs, the worse mistake you can make is believe that the people in power are smarter than you are.
I do not think they are.
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